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Navy’s Electromagnetic Rail Gun Prototype Tosses Projectiles at up to 5600MPH!
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I would have to think that being an engineer on a prototype weapons program would be all kinds of bad-ass. I would like to be a member the team behind the latest new weapon that the U.S. Navy is about to begin testing. It’s a freakin’ railgun! The Navy has… |
February 12th, 2012
Engineers Develop Self-Steering Bullets: Ready, Fire, Aim
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Engineers from weapons and defense research outfit Sandia National Laboratories are working on a bullet that can steer itself after it is fired, homing in on laser-designated targets with the help of embedded electronics. The other geniuses working on invisibility need to go on overdrive.… |
February 1st, 2012
Army Wants to Make Fat Soldiers Thin by Injecting More Fat Cells
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One thing that Kung Fu Panda… taught me is that portly warriors can still kick butt- skadoosh! The U.S. Army feels differently though and wants all of its obese soldiers to slim down, with very good reason. Overweight soldiers may not have the stamina to keep up with their skinnier |
January 31st, 2012
X-47B UAV: Can Skynet Be Far Behind?
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Yep, the US military is set to put the first part of Skynet into motion. The first part of the system that John Connor will need to fight is already in development. The craft is called the X-47B and it has been designed to require no human interaction to carry… |
January 28th, 2012
Trax MkII Concept Watch is Militaristic and Easy to Read
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Remember that futuristic concept watch I told you about yesterday, FOUR? It had all the makings of a great watch, except that it was way too complicated for my taste.… |
January 17th, 2012
Military Humvees Go for Hybrid Power
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The world has gone hybrid crazy it seems. The hybrid makes a lot of sense in that you can reduce the amount of fuel you use and save a bit at the pump. They also make less pollution we all have to breathe as well. Hybrid tech has even found… |
December 30th, 2011
NATO Drone Captured by Iran Using GPS Hack?
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If you follow the news, you probably have heard or read about the NATO RQ-170 drone that was captured by Iran. When I saw the captured drone photos that were floating around and noted the drone was in one piece I wondered what happened. The Iranian scientist that helped capture… |
December 16th, 2011
US Army Orders a Bunch of Rolling Recon Scout XT Robots
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The military is quickly adopting all sorts of robots and unmanned hardware for the battlefield in an effort to protect soldiers as much as they can be protected while fighting. One of the things that the military is doing is adding more robots to the field to allow the soldiers… |
October 6th, 2011
BigDog Gets Bigger with AlphaDog
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You might recall earlier this month we talked about the BigDog robot that was designed to carry gear for the military on patrol across uneven terrain to allow soldiers to carry more with them on a patrol. That BigDog robot gives me the creeps; it looks like a headless AT-AT… |
September 30th, 2011
Lockheed’s Samarai Drone Design is Based on a Maple Seed
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Each fall I end up spending some time outside with the kids chasing leaves. They think it’s a riot to see if they can catch a leaf before it hits the ground as it falls from the tree. If you live in an area with maple trees, you have seen… |
August 12th, 2011
